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[evetion]

if we're doing this metapackage thing?

Originally posted by @asinghvi17 in #1 (comment)

• I'd say this will at least help with (first) installations, and getting up to speed in tutorials.
• When re-exporting, we'd have to make sure there are no clashes
• This might also be a nice testing ground for combined tests/tutorials.
• ?

[asinghvi17]

1. What level of tutorial are we pushing this at? I'd almost be tempted to not put it in the geocompx book, and if we can get all the needed imports into Rasters and GeometryOps (Extents, GeoFormatTypes, etc), the only purpose of this package would be to load backends.
2. To restate - the clashes are:

• GeoJSON between GeoFormatTypes and GeoJSON,
• coverage, rebuild, reproject between GeometryOps and Rasters
  • Neither GO nor DD/Rasters should export rebuild (though they can claim it's public API)
  • Rasters should use GO reproject
  • GO coverage is broken anyway so we'll unexport and default to Rasters coverage, can switch that back to GO with Rasters defining a dispatch at some pont
• union, intersection between Extents and GeometryOps. (this should be solved by preferring GeometryOps over Extents because it will perform the polygon union, making Extent effectively be a RectTrait)

Some of these definitions can be folded into each other - the only true issue might be Rasters coverage.

For

[rafaqz]

After converting some terra code I've come around to Geo.func being better than Rasters/GeometryOps/GeoDataFrames.func for explaining things to beginners, because its hard to know which package does what.

geocompx could start with just using Geo for an easy introduction, then transition to using specific packages where only one is needed. We can have both the easy syntax for beginners and just using the tool you need for more advanced users.

[asinghvi17]

From a conversation with Maarten today, Geo should not have any functionality of its own - all interop should be done in package extensions in the ecosystem, loading Geo will simply trigger those extensions.